AuthorHoman, Gerlof D. author
TitleJean-Franรงois Reubell [electronic resource] : French Revolutionary, Patriot, and Director (1747-1807) / by Gerlof D. Homan
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1971
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3042-7
Descript 212 p. online resource

SUMMARY

Although numerous facets of the French Revolution have been thoroughly researched, there remain many lacunae. A historian can still find much virgin territory in the social aspects of the Revolution or he can study the events of a given locality. It is especially in the realm of biographical studies, however, that much more remains to be done. Social, economic, and other forces played an important role in the Great Revolution. But in the final analysis it were men and women, no matter how much they might have been "conditioned by the forces of history" or their environment who determined the course of history and who molded their own destiny. No biography on Jean-Fran


CONTENT

I. Alsatian Lawyer -- II. The Estates General and the National Constituent Assembly -- III. Procureur-General-Syndic and Member of the National Convention -- IV. The Directorship -- V. The Council of Elders and Retirement


SUBJECT

  1. History
  2. History
  3. History
  4. general